Black Magic Comics #11

Joan the Wad (Table of Contents: 1)

Joan the Wad / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Indexer Notes

Inside Front Cove.
Ad to send for a 'History of the Cornish Piskey folk'.

The Angel of Death! (Table of Contents: 2)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

Jack Kirby ?

Pencils

Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?

Inks

Jack Kirby; Joe Simon ?

Letters

Ben Oda

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

Indexer Notes

Possible Kirby script per Nick Caputo, November 2012.

Dead Ringer! (Table of Contents: 3)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bob McCarthy

Inks

Bob McCarthy

Letters

Ben Oda

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

Ashes to Ashes! (Table of Contents: 4)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Bill Draut

Inks

Bill Draut

Letters

Ben Oda

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

The Flight That Failed (Table of Contents: 5)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

Shades of Rex! (Table of Contents: 6)

comic story / 3.5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

George Roussos

Letters

Ben Oda

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

Everyone of us lives in two worlds! (Table of Contents: 7)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 0.5 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#2 [8] (December 1951-January 1952)

Indexer Notes

House Ad for 'Strange World of Your Dreams'.
Cover repro from Strange World of Your Dreams (Prize, 1952 series) #v1#1 (August 1952)

Last Date (Table of Contents: 8)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Letters

typeset

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

The Promised Land! (Table of Contents: 9)

comic story / 7 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Mort Meskin

Inks

Mort Meskin ?; George Roussos ?

Letters

Ben Oda

Reprints

• from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#9 (15) (August 1952)

Blood for the Vampire! (Table of Contents: 10)

comic story / 8 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Norman Nodel (signed)

Inks

Vince Alascia (signed)

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

The small town of Ravennes in the Tyrolian alps is haunted by the vampire Erik Lustveg. When Rod and Dot Blair, descendants of the Lustveg family, come investigating their heritage, they find that the vampire legend is very much alive.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Haunted Honeymoon (Table of Contents: 11)

comic story / 5 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

George Roussos

Inks

?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Roy and Dot Evans stay overnight at a weird old man's place. They find out that he keeps a boy, his warden, prisoner and plans to kill him, but is afraid of his ghost to haunt him after death.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

Hounds from Hell (Table of Contents: 12)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

In New Zealand, a man called Belter commands special abilities like being able to see in the dark. As a price for that he is haunted by ghostly apparitions every night.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Indexer Notes

spot illustration

The Ghostly Diners (Table of Contents: 13)

text story / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

A dining room in a New Orleans house is haunted and relives over and over a dinner from the past during which the guests were poisoned.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Indexer Notes

spot illustration, probably by Joe Kubert

Black Means Death! (Table of Contents: 14)

comic story / 6 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Harry Lazarus

Inks

Harry Lazarus ?

Letters

typeset (Leroy lettering)

Genre

crime

Synopsis

Harry Walters can't stand the nagging of his wife Karen anymore. At a bar he meets the lovely Mara, looking like Karen's twin. Walters falls in love with Mara, kills Karen and then realizes that they were the same person.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Indexer Notes

First-person narrative.
Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.

The Nightmare (Table of Contents: 15)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Joe Kubert

Inks

Bob Bean ?

Letters

?

Genre

horror-suspense

Synopsis

Playwright Nathan Foxx writes a play which invokes the devil's appearance.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Indexer Notes

Art identification by Jim Vadeboncoeur, Jr.
Previous indexer suggested Joe Kubert for inks, too.

The Ghoul Walks! (Table of Contents: 16)

comic story / 3 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

crime; horror-suspense

Synopsis

Police detective Dan Noren investigates a murder spree, a feeling of foreboding driving him on. The fiend everybody's been looking for turns out to be himself.

Reprints

• from Eerie (Avon, 1951 series) #7 (June-July 1952)

Jet Propelled (Table of Contents: 17)

comic story / 4 pages (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

?

Genre

non-fiction

Reprints

• from Airboy Comics (Hillman, 1945 series) #v8#9 [92] (October 1951)

Indexer Notes

True Story

The Secret of Treasure Cave (Table of Contents: 18)

Wilson Chemical Co. / advertisement / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

Ray Thompson

Inks

Ray Thompson

Letters

?

Characters

Gray Shadow; Mrs. Jones; Spike

Indexer Notes

Our 57th year.

Coupon code:

B-148 ?

The Soul of a Man (Table of Contents: 19)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Inside back cover.
House ad for Black Magic Comics (Arnold Book Company, 1952 series) #12.
Panel used is from Page 1, Panel 1 from 'The Soul of A Man!' story from Black Magic (Prize, 1950 series) #v2#11 (17) (October 1952)

Science Fiction Fantasy Fiction (Table of Contents: 20)

promo (ad from the publisher) / 1 page (report information)

Script

?

Pencils

?

Inks

?

Letters

typeset

Indexer Notes

Back cover.
House ad for UK reprints of:

Science Fiction
Galaxy and Amazing Stories magazines, price of 1'6 each (so would make these the 1st series of the former and 2nd series of the latter.)

Fantasy Fiction
Weird Tales, Fantastic and Beyond magazines, price of 1'6 each.

Will appear regularly on all the best bookstalls and newsagents counters from September onwards.